The advent of personal satellites is upon us, the CubeSat “…program strives to provide practical, reliable, and cost-effective launch opportunities for small satellites and their payloads…The CubeSat Project is a international collaboration of over 40 universities, high schools, and private firms developing picosatellites containing scientific, private, and government payloads…CubeSats are being launched on decomissioned Russian rockets. Through companies like Eurokot and Kosmotras, launch costs currently translate to about $40,000 per single cube for the developer…”
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The advent of personal satellites is upon us, the CubeSat “…program strives to provide practical, reliable, and cost-effective launch opportunities for small satellites and their payloads…The CubeSat Project is a international collaboration of over 40 universities, high schools, and private firms developing picosatellites containing scientific, private, and government payloads…CubeSats are being launched on decomissioned Russian [...]